Confronting poverty: weak states and U.S. national security

Susan E. Rice, Corinne Graff, Carlos Pascual, editors

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Summary:: Examines the connection between poverty, fragile states, and transnational conflict and the implications for American security.
Table of Contents:: Foreword / Strobe Talbott
1. The national security implications of global poverty / Susan E. Rice
2. Poverty and state weakness / Susan E. Rice
3. Poverty, development, and violent extremism in weak states / Corinne Graff
4. Poverty, state weakness, and civil war / Andrew Loomis
5. Feeding insecurity? Poverty, weak states, and climate change / Joshua Busby
6. State weakness and infectious diseases / Miriam Estrin and Carl Malm
7. Conclusion and policy implications / Carlos Pascual and Corinne Graff.
Contributors:: Rice, Susan E.
Graff, Corinne
Pascual, Carlos
Brookings Institution
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Subjects:: Poverty — Developing countries
Political stability — Developing countries
Failed states — Developing countries
National security — United States
Poverty
Political stability
Failed states
National security
Developing countries
United States
General Notes:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description:: x, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Call Numbers:: HC59.72.P6 C66 2010
ISBNs:: 9780815703907 (pbk., alk. paper)
0815703902 (pbk., alk. paper)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:: 2009039055
OCLC Numbers:: 454364107